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" I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

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" I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. "

" I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom. "

" I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair. "

" People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better. "

" I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. "

" I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them. "

" I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better. "

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" Reading taught me how to write. "

" I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. "

" I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters. "

" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. "

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" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

" I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present. "

" I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books. "

" Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. "

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" In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. "

" I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage. "

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" People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul. "

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" Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. "

" I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry. "